Guitar Hero World Tour announced; drums and vocals added

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By Hector Cortez May 23, 2008, 19:30 GMT

Activision is turning it up to 11 with the addition of drums and vocals to their beloved Guiar Hero franchise. Guitar Hero World Tour will feature a newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as a Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands.” Activision is turning it up to 11 with the addition of drums and vocals to their beloved Guiar Hero franchise.

Activision is turning it up to 11 with the addition of drums and vocals to their beloved Guiar Hero franchise. Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. Additionally, the game will offer significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before. Players can fully customize everything from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers.In addition to a newly designed more responsive guitar controller and microphone, Guitar Hero World Tour will deliver the most realistic drum experience ever in a video game with an authentic electronic drum kit. Featuring three drum pads, two raised cymbals and a bass kick pedal, the drum controller combines larger and quieter, velocity-sensitive drum heads with soft rubber construction to deliver authentic bounce back and is easy to set up, move, break down and store.

In addition to all of the online gameplay modes from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best. In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice.The game’s new Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. Music creators will also be able to share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them.Guitar Hero World Tour will be available this Fall for the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii and PS2.

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